I think the OP was going for satire. It's hard to tell these days.

It's not copyright infringement. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the specific form an idea takes. This is why, for example, there's many sci-fi seafaring tales, but in space books, TV shows and films.

Heck, I finally got around to watching that Wednesday series on Netflix and they basically did that whole school for exceptional outcasts trope, which is so heavily used that it actually ends up divided into several sub tropes.

Your UID is too low to not be aware that mergers and acquisitions always end in enshittification.
 

I'm a night owl too, and I honestly don't care which one they pick as long as they get rid of the biannual clock fuckery. It's the losing an hour of sleep that makes it rough, once that's done away with I couldn't care less that I'm actually being "tricked" into waking up an hour earlier than solar time.

How about we just don't? It's not as if you won't be able to go to the store that closes at 10PM for groceries if your employer doesn't let you off until 5:00PM when others are off at 4:00PM. Also, a lot of us don't have kids and we'd consider it a perk to work at an employer that isn't fucking with the clocks twice a year to align the work schedule with the schools (or at least makes it something you can choose an an employee - many companies do let you come in an hour earlier or leave an hour later).

Society schedules things in a far more ad-hoc manner these days anyway. Even "Prime Time TV" is basically a dead concept, replaced by on-demand streaming.

Now we have solar powered LED lighting though, so it's NBD to install some lights at the bus stop.

And "walking" to school? Hah, these days the kids that aren't riding the bus or being chauffeured by their parents are on e-bikes and e-scooters (which either already have lights or they can be easily added).

Feature request:

Implement more engaging side quests after the main goal of winning capitalism has been completed.

In my neck of the woods, idiot human drivers regularly still somehow manage to get hit by our commuter train. That's astoundingly easy to avoid - just don't stop on the train tracks. The bar for autonomous driving being better than humans is very, very low.

Tesla's FSD actually seems kind of decent from the videos I've seen people post. It's definitely no worse than how humans drive on I-4 in Orlando. What I mostly take issue with is that Tesla promised this feature to people who bought cars with hardware that would never be capable of running the current generation of FSD software.

I recall this one episode where the boys are tasked with doing a chocolate bar fundraiser for their school. IIRC, they manage to sell a single candy bar and then "loan" the dollar between each other repeatedly until they've purchased (and eaten) all the chocolate for themselves. What an absolutely perfect unintentional metaphor for the tech bro industry.

Considering that Siri is dumb as a box of rocks, I can't help but imagine that the only trade secrets stolen from Apple were what not to do.

I'm really not seeing what the advantage is of putting data centers in space that can't be accomplished less expensively down here on good old terra firma. That was the same problem with solar roadways. You want to put up solar panels? Great - we've yet to run out of places you can put them where they aren't going to be driven over by cars.

I realize there's some NIMBYism over data centers lately, but surely putting them somewhere in the middle of nowhere where nobody will complain is still orders of magnitude cheaper than space. Space is really, really not cheap.

The irony is, I've seen a lot of people stop being active on Facebook since it has been enshittified so heavily. Everybody I know doesn't bother posting anymore because the algorithmically promoted crap from people you're not actually following drowns out all the content from the people you do follow. Why bother posting if no one who follows you is even going to see it?

I'm kind of thinking these states are going after Facebook because they're clueless and still believe that Facebook = social media. Kids are getting their brain rot from Snapchat and TikTok these days.

So, we're just going to ignore that it was actually the parents who provided the devices capable of accessing these services in the first place? Letting kids access a site that is primarily populated by adults discussing adult subjects, could be harmful to their mental state? Yeah, who could've seen that coming.

Of course, a similar thing is going on right now with e-bikes, because there's apparently quite a few parents who don't understand that giving what is essentially an electric motorcycle to their underaged kid, is a bad idea.

You can still buy tobacco. Hell, post the retailpocalypse, it seems like every other brick and mortar store still standing is now a smoke shop. So, it was never really about protecting people from a harmful product, it was about the government seeing something they could slap a sin tax on and raise some easy revenue without the majority of the electorate going "hey, don't do that, we hate more taxes!" That's always the playbook.